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Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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Being Central Century Government Midst Once REquired Tsunami
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Already Asset Business Caution Economy Great Lost Momentum Must Possibly Predictable Remain Spend Weakness
Whatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economy Less Tax
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
ALAN GREENSPAN

Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Fail Future Investor Likely Longer Worst
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bank Better Indeed Management Necessary Only Risk Truly
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Action Allow Freedom Terrorism Undermine
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Acknowledge Everyone Inconvenient Know Oil Political Saddened
I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Guy Kind Plain Soap
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Coin Consecutive Head Investor Million Percent Pick Probably Stock Ten Tosser
It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Absence Confiscation Good Inflation Protect Saving Standard
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Say Think Understand
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Adherence Business Deal Gain Honest Honesty Satisfaction Strict Success

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